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General TC => Programming & Scripting - Unofficial => Topic started by: PDP-8 on June 17, 2025, 05:09:55 AM

Title: Poor man's TC clock app
Post by: PDP-8 on June 17, 2025, 05:09:55 AM

Just a fun thing I run in Aterm ...

I have this small rectangular clock running in the lower right about the same height at Wbar.  2-step setup.

1) In aterm, run this to see the clock every second:

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watch -n1 date
resize the terminal to a small-ish rectangle so you only see one line.  Then...

2) With the window resized, stop it with ctrl-c

Since I am only really interested in minute-updates, and not seconds, change the watch value to 60:

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watch -n60 date
Now just slide this little rectangle clock to the right of wbar.  Move it off the screen a bit if you aren't interested in the seconds and other info.

I know, kinda' dumb, but I think it's fun.

Title: Re: Poor man's TC clock app
Post by: Rich on June 17, 2025, 09:05:34 AM

Hi PDP-8
Long time no see. :)

Here's one I wrote several years ago:
https://forum.tinycorelinux.net/index.php/topic,13794.msg150397.html#msg150397

Title: Re: Poor man's TC clock app
Post by: Rich on June 17, 2025, 09:38:00 AM

Hi PDP-8

Quote from: PDP-8 on June 17, 2025, 05:09:55 AM

... Since I am only really interested in minute-updates, and not seconds, change the watch value to 60: ...

Or you could:

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# Display only hours and minutes (24 hour mode).
tc@E310:~$ date +'%H:%M'
09:26
# Display only hours and minutes (12 hour mode).
tc@E310:~$ date +'%I:%M'
09:27
# Display only hours and minutes (12 hour mode) with AM/PM indicator.
tc@E310:~$ date +'%I:%M%p'
09:27AM
You can also hide the header that  watch  displays like this:

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watch -tn1 date +'%H:%M'